In order to get your console to display the Euro symbol, you will need to set CONSOLEFONT in /etc/conf.d/consolefont to a file found in /usr/share/consolefonts/ (without the .psfu.gz). lat9w-16 has the Euro symbol.

Code Listing 7.1: Setting the console font

CONSOLEFONT="lat9w-16"

You should verify that CONSOLEFONT is in the boot runlevel:

Code Listing 7.2: Verify the proper runlevel

# rc-update show | grep -i consolefont

If no runlevel is displayed for CONSOLEFONT, then add it to the proper level:

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